The long, accelerating strides of 6-foot-3-inch, 191-pound Kenny Carrington carried the Richards receiver effortlessly past the Bolingbrook defensive back and into the end zone.Quarterback Greg Murphy's pass was on target and the Bulldogs had an...

Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips has declined to return text messages. And a team spokesman said coach Bill Carmody is “unavailable” for interviews Monday. It certainly makes you wonder whether Carmody is being told that his time at...

The Ravinia Festival remains one of the nation’s heavyweight classical music impresarios even if it increasingly finds itself in the position of playing Goliath to the David of the Grant Park Music Festival at Millennium Park. Ho-hum symphonic fare...

The hallmarks of Kansas under Bill Self over the years have been inside-outside post play and gritty defense, the kind of in-your-shorts man-to-man that leaves opponents gasping for air. That trusted formula has produced 13 straight Big 12...

Lakers guard Nick Young nailed the three-pointer, then trotted down the court as he does after all of them, with his tongue hanging out as his hands signaled with three fingers to show what he’d just contributed.
Like that, the Lakers took a 110-99...

Coach Byron Scott said before the Lakers' game Sunday night that he's pushing his team to win every game, regardless of whatever impact that might have on their NBA draft position.
The Lakers ran away from the Philadelphia 76ers, 101-87, with a...

The Lakers (17-50) and Philadelphia 76ers (17-52) meet Sunday night at Staples Center in a game with significant draft implications.
The loser will hold the third-best lottery position (based on the win column), behind the New York Knicks (14-55) and...

Sometimes doing nothing can be the best move.
The Clippers hope that's the ultimate take-away from keeping their roster intact at the trade deadline Thursday after failing to find an upgrade on the perimeter.
Of course, their team may look a bit...

The Lakers were granted a $4.85 million disabled-player exception on Tuesday for injured point guard Steve Nash.
What that means for a future Lakers' acquisition isn't as straightforward. The exception is a spending tool that can be used to add one...

Without the reassuring voice of Jerry Buss, the late Lakers owner whose eleventh-hour phone call prevented Kobe Bryant from going to the Clippers in 2004, the Lakers are turning to two veterans to help keep Dwight Howard in Los Angeles.Bryant and Steve...